urgent!! how to save bill on this sort of thing

shuxiong

I have to buy electricity top up card then insert to the electric metres to top up.
anyone have some ideas how can I CUT my electricity bill down.
Cause I have to buy top card and cannot get any discount, so u know I have no idea,
by the way, the washing machine need coins inserted to work, how can I make it work without insert coins?
thank you very much.

MarkyMarkD

Electricity

Prepayment meter is the most expensive way to pay. But you can switch supplier even with a prepayment meter - check out somewhere like https://www.uswitch.com for comparisons.

And you can run things overnight on economy 7 if you have a two-part meter (normally between about 12.30am and 7.30am although it varies around the country and with the time of year).

Washing machine

If you are talking about having a machine which is on a rental agreement and the way the repayments are made is by inserting coins, then operating it without putting money in is fraudulent and there's no way you can legally avoid paying.

If the agreement has been settled, get the coin mechanism removed by the supplier.

dag_2

Like Marky says - though I don't think there's any such thing as an Economy 7 prepayment meter.

Has the prepayment meter only just been put in? Or was there already a prepayment meter there when you moved in? Make sure you're not paying a previous tenant's debt. Try to get the supplier to change it to a credit meter.

loon_2

yes there is such a thing as an economy 7 pre-payment meter.

however, if you are on a token meter (the one with the cardboard cards) your meter will be set at your local suppliers rate. so no matter who you change to, you will still be putting in the same amount of electric, you should be credited back the difference at the end of year.

if you wish to reduce your bills, the best thing you can do is work out your annual consumption and go onto a tariff calculating website and do a comparison based on credit meters.

then simply change to the cheapest, but before transferring, check to see how long it will take and how much it will cost as some companies will charge.